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      Of Mountaineers, Maybe Guessed From Sing...

      9 August 31 , 1850 , __^ _ __ _JT E _y-P . _^ _THE-R . ? STa _% . _S ! 55 _^^ - I _rnnnlkl 1 7 " ~ ' " mmmm _**~ m * a _^—a—* rtl _* m _~ m _*~~—^ - _^ - - ¦ || _p _—~———— -- ¦

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      The Great Mistake. Well, Really I'M Asto...

      THE GREAT MISTAKE . Well , really I ' m astonished quite , And scarce know what to say , To find that Sunday , after all , _IssliUavforking _daj ; That , spite of _Lcgbl ? t'ie Acts , And Bigotry ' s _bmia _frver The _worlo is going roundto Hay As rap idly as _«™ r . Ithon _« _bt-esccpt in o rgan _pipes-^ lE wind was not to blow , And flowers were to be token up If tbcv presumed to grow : That even * stomach , ship , and thing ia any kind of motion , „ _ust stop fOT bouvs just twenty-four , To offer its devotion .

      1 thought , too , nothing must be read Save psalms in holy walls , Yet there : are placards posted up , Announcing " sales" and " balls ;" That men could neither send tiieir _taongnts Xor bo allowed to carry ' em . _5 or Christian pastors take their fees From folks—or even marry ' em . I thought , if e ' en the sun came out , It would be deemed a crime , And that some plan had been devised To bind the wings of Time ; That erery dial , clock , and watch , With sis days' labour irking-, "Would have to wind np its affairs And stop its hands from working .

      All mail deliv'ries were to stop , Yet there is Mrs . _Ilmns—Ungodly woman!—just confined With—would you think it?—twins ; And Ylcar Dolus _, to whom 'twas thought A day ' s respite was given , This very morning made his will , And went , I hope , to Heaven . Tiere goes tbe doctor in bis gig , And there is Chemist Brown As hard at work as if he meant To knock his counter down ; Yea , even while the parish church With pious souls u filling , A fellow , i-awliug " Mackerel , " Sells two soles for » shilling .

      I thought all labour was to cease , Yet poor oid 3 Ir . _Crupp , The bishop ' s carriage can ' t knock down Bnt some one picks him up ; And just because the church takes fire , The zealous congregation , Hush out for engine , pipes , and pails , To stop the conflagration . 3 thought tbat Jane , my Lady ' s cook , And John , the butler , too , "Would he ohllged to go to church , As other Christians do ; And that , bowererodd it seem , Each ostler , footman , baker , Relieved from toil , would leisure bave To worship God , his Maker .

      And Sunday trains still running—well 3 They'll sure fly off * the rails , Conveying pleasure-seekers when They dare not take the mails . There really mu-t be some mistake'Tis Saturday or Monday , For we are holy people vow—That is—upon a Sunday . Tic never dream of labouring , _Unon tbe serenth day—Or riding out , or doing aught That savours of display . 2 _io children , servants cattle now Are Sabbath-breaking sinners—And what is more , we ' ve given up Our nice hot Sunday dinners .

      Alas ! metbinks—I ' ve heen deceived , And so have _liuif the town—It merely is the * ' Sunday Post " The wise heads have put down—A 3 if , by making it a sin , To send an urgent letter , They did the smallest good on earth , Or made one bad heart better .

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      T 7 _te People of the Caucasus , and their Struggle for Liberty with the Russians—( Die Volher des Caucasus , fyc . ) By Friedrkh Bodenstcat . SecoEd _Editiou . Frankfort am ? . Jam , Lizios ; London , Nutt . The vicissitudes of the wax iu the Caucasus of hie hare been surprising enough to awaken ihe interest of Western Europe , even amidst her own nearer anxieties . Last year it was said that the conquest of Achulgo , the

      stronghold of the redoubtable Schamyl , had effectually broken the power of that daring leader . In direct contradiction to such reports , later accounts from Daghestan tell of the re-appearance of the notable partisan amidst the fines of the Eussians , and of a defeat ofthe latter , the most severe , if the details of the event he true , that they hare yet suffered in the Caucasus . Ia any case , these exciting _changes would he in favour of a book

      professing to describe this interesting region , and to add to our knowledge of its brave inhabitants . The main interest of Hen * Bodenstedt ' s work -will now be enhanced by its undertaking to give a more precise account than had previou-l y appeared of the priest-warrior of Daghestan , and of the new sect as the prophet of ¦ which Ue succeeded in arraying the independent mountain clans against their common enemy with a kind of combination unknown in earlier periods of the struggle . \

      The author has evidently lived for some time in the region which he describes , or in the bordering districts along the Caspian , both in Georgia , and in _North Daghestan . His acquaintance with Asiatic and Russian languages and customs , appears to have been gained hoth hy study and from intercourse with the natives of the south-eastern frontier . He is not ignorant of oriental writings that refer to his subject ; and his Russian statistics prove an access to official authorities which aie _ ot to be found in print . These , however obtained , can scarcely hare been imparted to him as one of those writers whom the Court of

      St . Peteisburgh hires to promote its views , _through the press of Western Europe . His sympathies are declared against Russian usurpation j and the tendency of his essay is to prove how little real progress ithas yet made in subduing the Caucasus , the enormous waste of money and . life with , whitlv its fluctuating successes have heen bought , and the fallacy of expecting a better result hereafter . The best part of his work is , that which delineates some features ofthe later movement

      in tlie Caucasus , hitherto but little known in Western Europe . The historical survey with which the book opens , comprising—with a sketch of Russia ' s usurpation of Georgia , and a keen discussion of the pretences on which she claims the sovereignty of Caucasus—an account of its several clans , and ofthe topography and statistics of that region , and an able sketch _, ofthe origin and settlement of the Cossack tribes , is also ably drawn up . From the ethnographic part we take the following rough estimate of the numbers ofthe male population of the Caucasus able to bear arms . They are given hy Hen * _Bodenstedt , with the provisio that they are hut approximate , as Mows : —

      Belonging to the race of _Kartwel-incluthng ,, as branches of one parent stock _, tne Georgians , _Imerians , Sar iaDs , Mingrelians , andSuanetes . 300 , 000 Abshadian and Tscherkessian tribes , occupying the region between the Kuban and tbe Black Sea { or those commonly known to Europe under the denomination of - l _^ c < usiam ") 150 . 000 _¥ S ? 350 , 000 Armenians 135 000 Of Turkish and Persian descent ... ... 35 o _' ooo

      £ 1 , 285 , 000 Other authorities compute the number variously , hetween one and one and a half millions . The larger estimate may not be found excesl sire when the extent of the region is considered . TheLesghiansweseearehere ratedat 350 , 000 fighting men : —of these , some 100 , 000 must be struck oft , as tribes under Russian control—the remainder will form the able male population of that region , in which the chief warfare of the last ten years has raged . What it has cost in life oa the Russian side to attack —hitherto with no lasting effect—this handful

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      of mountaineers , maybe guessed from a single note inserted in the Appendix , dated 1847 . « The present Russian force in the Caucasus " —including , of course the armed _CasBocks on theKuban and Terek— . " amounts to 200 , 000 . " Taking into account the numbers yearly cut off by disease , more fatal even than the mountain war , every step of which must be won by the most reckless waste of life—the " Russian Officer" may , perhaps , truly affirm that ihe annual expenditure of life by Russia in her warfare with _Schamyl , has for many years past exceeded the whole number of the population at any one time directly under the rule of that chieftain . _^ _P mntint 3 ineerS . _UlaV be < rn « ns ( ul A < nTn . oo _^ _nralnl

      Tho editor ' s caution on the subject of Russian statistics is , however , worth remembering here : —» The foreign traveller , who wishes to obtain a glimpse of th' * statistical relations of this country will do well to put more faith in printed Russian documents than in the oral data of Russian offi . cials—those , even , whose position renders an exact knowledge of the internal circumstances of the country a positive duty . For your true Russians are never moro delighted than when a foreign author sets forth in public with a good round budget of nonsense concerning their najtion ; but thoy

      dread the truth , as owls do the light-like the basilisk , they would die , were they'b y accident to behold their own real image . For this reason , therefore , every Russian of the right sort will frankly contribute his mite to perplex the traveller ' s notions , and to keep truth out of the way as much as possible . With what satisfaction do the 3 e gentry then rub their hands when they detect mistakes which they themselves have iieirotten ? "What a rejoicing there was in the Boyar _drowing-roc-ms when M . _d'Arlincourr , in his "Etoile Polairc , " brought into the book-market all the absurdities and obsolete fictions with which ho had been

      crammed m Moscow and Peter-burgh!—so many false numbers to discover ! and so many wrong names I such a mass of fables , and so little truth 1 aud Russian society depicted in a manner at once so preposterous and so highly scente'd—as if the author had written with a dottrel's feather dipped in attar of roses ! In short , it was an ecstatic triumph—a pleasure more than enough for the heart of an orthodox Muscovite . It was but fair in the Emperor to repay the innocent _delight which the noble Vicomte had thus afforded to his Majesty ' s subjects who speak French—with the gift of an order .

      We have said that the most instructive part of Hen * Bodenstedt ' s essay is , his sketch of that politico-religious scheme which made Schamyl formidable to the Russians . This system , it is to be observed , arose and has been since _fiilly developed onl y in the Eastern Caucasus , where of late the main stress ofthe war has been . The western tribes ( our " Circassians " ) who took the lead at an earlier stage of the contest , were not then , nor have tbey since been inspired by the fanatic zeal which united the tribes of Daghestan . They fought from a mere love of independence , each little republic by itself ; and their efforts , however heroic , being without concert , declined before the vast force of the invader . In the

      region looking westward from the Georgian frontier on the Eusine , on the one side of the Caucasian range , aud along the lower Kuban on the other , the Russian posts are now seldom threatened but by small predatory bands—the natives , retired to their mountain villages , have for some time made bat few more formidable incursions . The war is transferred to the region spreading eastward from the Elbrus to the Caspian ; where the strife for free existence is animated not less hy the hatred of Russian slavery than by a fresh outbreak of Mohammedan zeal against Infidel invasion , —a revival , in fact , of tliat warlike fanaticism which made the Moslem name terrible from the ei ght to the sixteenth century .

      It dates irom the years 1823-4 ; at which period a " newdoctrine" began to be preached secretly at first , to the select Ulema , afterwards to greater numbers , in word and _writing , by one Mullah Mohammed , a famous teacher and a judge ( or kadi ) of Jaracb , in the Kurin district of Daghestan . He professed to have learnt it _fi'om _Hadis-Ismail , an Alim of Kurdoinir , highly famed for wisdom and sanctity . It laid bare the degradation into which his countrymen had _suuk by irreligion and by the jealousy of sect ; their danger in consequence , from enemies of the true faith ; and

      urged the necessity of reform in creed and practice , in order to regain the invincible cha meter promised by the Prophet to believers . The theoretic part of the reformed doctrine seems to be a kind of Sufism , —the general character of which mode of Islam , long prevalent in the adjacent kingdom of Persia , has been described by our own orientalists . Disputed questions as to its origin , whether in Brahmin philosophy or in the reveries of Moslem mystics , cannot be discussed here ; it must

      suffice to indicate those points whicb appear to connect it with the hieratic policy that has given a new aspect to the war in the Caucasus . Proceeding nominally on the basis of the Koran , iL inculcates or expounds a kind of spiritual transcendentalism ; in which the adept is raised above the necessity of formal laws , which are only requisite for those who are not capable of rising to a full intelligence of the supreme power . To gain this height hy devout contemplation must he the personal work and endeavour of each individual . The

      revelation of divine truth , once attained , super _sedes specific moral injunctions ; ceremonies and systems , even of religion , become indifferent to the mind illuminated by the sacred idea . A higher degree is the perfect conception or ecstatic vision of the Deity;—the highest—reserved only for the prophetic fewa real immediate union with his essence . Here , it will be seen , are four steps or stages , each of which has its sacred manual or appropriate system of teaching . In the hieratic system of which Schamyl is the head , the divisions seem to correspond pretty nearly with this arrangement , as follows : —

      The first includes the mass of the armed people ; whose zeal it promotes by strict relig ious and moral injunctions—enjoining purity of life , exact regard tothe ritual ofthe Koran , teaching pilgrimages , fasting ablutions ; the duty of implacable war against the Infidel , the sin of enduring his tyranny . The second is composed of those who , in virtue of striving upwards to a higher Divine intelligence , are elevated above ceremonial religion . Of these the Murids ( seekers or _strngglers , ) aro formed : a body of religious warriors attached to thelnam , whose courage in battle , raised to a kind of frenzy , despises numbers and laughs at death . To accept quarter , or to fly from the Infidel , is forbidden to this class .

      The third includes the more perfect acolytes , who are presumed to have risen to the ecstatic view of the Deity . These are the elect , whom the Imam makes Naibs , or vicegerents , —invested with nearly absolute power in his

      absence . The f ourth , or highest , implying entire union with the Divine essence , is held by Schamyl alone . In virtue of this elevation and spiritual endowment , the Imam , as an immediate organ ofthe Supreme Will , ia himsel f the source o f all Jaw to his followers , unerring , impeccable ; to question or disobey his behests is a sin against religion , as well as a political crime . It may be seen what advantage this system must have given to Schamyl in his conflict with the Russians . The doctrine ofthe indifference of sects and forms enabled him to unite the divided followers of

      Omar and of Ali , in a region where both abound , and where the scbisin had formerly been one of the most effectual instruments of the enemy . The belief in a Divine mission and spiritual powers sustains his adherents in all reverses ; while ft invites to defection from the Russian side those of the Mohammedan tr ibes who have submitted to the invader . Among these , however , Schamyl—like his predecessors in the same priestly office—by no means confides the progress of his sect to spiritual influences only . The work of conversion , where exhortation fails , is carried on remorselessl y by fire and sword : and the Imam

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      is as terrible to those of his countrymen whom fear or interest retains in alliance with Russia _,, as to the soldie _' rs of the Czar . With a character in which extreme during is allied with coolness , cunning , and military genius , —with a good fortune which has hitherto preserved his life in many circumstances where escape seemed impossible , —it may be seen that the belief in his supernatural gifts and privileges , once created , must always tend to increase' in intensity and e ff ect among the imaginative and credulous Mohammedans of the Caucasus , _* _' _o nn _. X . _^ « .. .

      and that this apt combination of the warrior with the politician and prophet , accounts for his success in combining against the Russians a force of the once discordant tribes of Daghestan , _possessing moro of the character of a national resistance than had been ever known before in the Caucasus , ~ and compelling the invaders to purchase every one of their few , trifling and dubious advances by the terrible sacrifice of life already noticed . . In this formidable movement , tho highlander ' s natural love of freedom is fanned into

      a blaze by a religious zeal like that which ouce led the armies of Islam over one half of Asia aud Europe . Although it reached its highest energy and a more consummate developement under Schamyl , it was begun by his predecessors . Of tlie Mullah Mohammed , who first preached the duty of casting off tho yoke of the Giaour , and the necessity of a religions reform and union of _riviil sects , as a means to that end , we have already spoken . This founder of the new sysiom , an aged man , untrained in arms , never himself drew the sword in the cause ; but was active in diffusing its principles , and preparing a warlike

      rising by exhortations und letters circulated through all Daghestan , Suspected of these designs , he was seized , in 1826 ' , by the orders of Jermoloff ; and although he escaped , —by the connivance , it is said , of the native prince employed to capture him , — he afterwards lived , in a kind of concealment for some years . The post of Imam was thereupon assumed by a priest who was able to fight for tho new doctrine as well as to preach it . The first armed outbreak took place under _Kasi-Mullah _, about the year 1829 ; from wliich time , until his death in a battle at Himry , in 1831 , he waged a terrible and , although often defeated , a virtually successful warfare , against the

      Russians , while he prosecuted the work of conversion among the tribes of Islam who delayed to acknowledge bis mission , and to join in his enmity to the Russians , hy the extremities of bloodshed and rapine . His death , after an heroic resistance , was hailed as a triumph by the Russians . They counted on the extinction of the new sect in the defeat of its leader—whose dead body they carried about the country to prove tho imposture of his pretensions . This piece of barbarism produced an eSect the reverse of what tbey expected . The venerable face of the Imam , the attitude iu which he had expired , with one hand pointed as if to heaven , was move impressive to those who crowded round the body than his _feavlesa enthusiasm had been— : md thousands who till then bad

      held aloof , now joined his followers m venerating him as a prophet . Of this first warrior-priest of Daghestan , Schamyl was the favourite disciple and the most trusted soldier . _ILisi-Mullah wns not killed until Schamyl had already fallen , as it seemed , under several deadly wounds—his vo-nppearance after this bloody scenowas but the first of many similar escapes , ' the resort of which sounds like a fable . lie did not , however , at once succeed to the dignity of Imam : the office was usurped for more tban a year by Hamsad _lleg ( Bey ) , whose rapacious and savage treatment of some of the princely families of Daghestan nearly caused , _i _falal reaction against the new sect , and tho destruction

      of its main support , the Murids Han-. B & _o . Beg performed no action of consequence _against the Russians ; but expended his rage against the natives allied with them , or reluctant to obey hi 3 mandates . He was assassinated in 1834 by some kinsmen of a priucely house whose territories he had usurped after a massacre of its princes . In tlie affray which took place on tbe occasion , there perished with him many ofthe fanatic Murids , who had become odious as insnuments of tlie cruelties of their Imam . On his ieath , Schamyl was raised to tho dignity ; but it was some time beforo tho mischief done by his _predecessor , was so far repaired as to allow him to act with energy as the prophet ' of the new doctrine .

      One of the ill effects of Hamsad Beg s iniquities had been the defection t <> ihe Russians of a notable partisan-Hadji _Alui-ad—for many years a fatal thorn in the side of the independent party . This and other difficulties , among wliich was the unpopularity of the Murids under _ffarusad Beg , were removed by new alliances and precautions , while _»)] that eloquence and skill could perform was applied to restore the credit of the religious system—before Schamyl could hazard a direct attack of the Russian enemy—who meanwhile had taken advantage of the delay and disunion to gain ground in many

      parts oi Daghestan . From the year 1839 , however , the tide rapidly turned ; and the result , from that date until the _period at which the account closes ( 1845 _)^ -wlieu _Wovonxow \ v . \ _s appointed to command in the Caucasus , with nearly unlimited powers —has heen that the Russians , in _spitoof tremendous sacrifices , were constantly losing ground und influence , while Schamyl gained both in equal proportion . We extract the following account of the Caucasian hero , whoso portrait , we believe , has never beforo been so fully exhibited to European readers : —

      " Schamyl is of middle stature , * he has light hair , grey eyes , shaded by bushy and well arched eyebrows—a nose finely moulded , and a . small mouth . His features are distinguished from those of his race by n peculiar fairness of complexion and delicacy oi skin ; the elegant form of his hands and feet i 3 not less remarkable . The apparent s < iffness of his arms , when he walks , is a sign of bis stern and impenetrable character . His address is thoroughly noble and dignified . Of himself he i completely master , * and he exerts a tacit supremacy over all who approach him . An immoveable stony calmness , which never forsakes him , even in moments of the utmost danger , broods over his countenance . He passes a sentence of death with the same composure with whicb he distributes "the sabre of honour" to his bravest Murids , after a bloody encounter . With traitors or criminals whom he has resolved to

      destroy he will converse without betraying the least sign of anger or vengeance . Ue regards himself as a mere instrument in the hands of a higher Being ; and holds , according to the Sufi doctrine , that ail his thoughts and determinations are immediate inspirations from God . Tbcflow of his speech is as animating and irresistible as his outward appeavauce ia awful and commanding . " lie shoots flames from his eyes , nnd scatters flowers from his lips "—said Bersek Bey , who sheltered him for some days alter the fall of Achuigo—when Sedan ** , *! dwelt for some time among the princes of the Djighetes and TJbiches , for the purpose of inciting the tribes on the Black Sea to rise against the Russians . Schamyl is now ( circa 1847 ?) fifty years old , but still full of vigour and strength ; it is however said , that he has for some years past suffered from an

      obstinate disease of the eyes , wbich is constantly growing worse . He fills the intervals of leisure which his public charges allow him , in reading the Koran , fasting , and prayer . Of lato years lie has but seldom , and then only on critical occasions , taken a personal shave in warlike encounters . In spite of his almost supernatural activity , Schamyl is excessively severe and temperate in his habits A few hours of sleep are enough for him ; at times he will watch for tho whole night , without showing the least trace of fatigue on the following day . He eats little , and water is his only beverage . * According to Mohammedan custom , he keeps soreval wives —[ this contradicts Wagner , who affirms that Schamyl always confined himself to one ];—in 1844 he had three , of which his favourite , Dur Raremen ( Pearl of the Ilarem ) , as she _^ was called , was an Armenian of exquisite beauty . "

      Will Russian arms prevail in the end ? Tho following is Hen * Bodenstedt's answer ; after noticing the arrival of Woronzow , and the expectations raisen hy his talents , by the immense resources at his command , as well as by such events as the storm at Scbamyl _' s stronghold of Dargo : — " He who believes that the issue of this contest _haugs on the destruction of stone fortresses , on the devastation of tracts of forest , has not yet conceived the essential nature of the war in the

      Caucasus . * * * This ib not merely a war of men against men—it is a strife between tho mountain and the steppe . Tho population of the Caucasus may be changed ; the air of liberty wafted froni its heights will ever remain the same . Invigorated _oy this atmosphere , even Russian hirelings would grow into men eager for freedom ; and among their descendants a new race of heroes would arise , to point their weapons against that servile constitution , to extend which their fathers had once fought , as

      blind , unquestioning slaves . To this answer of Herr Bodenstedt ' s we will add nothing of our own . We are weary with waiting for the events of history such as we would nave them .

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      caSSSM & !"" A P f 4 . _* _3 s _; _ateIy been invented and _™« £ i _* ° _- _- erat , on for cooking by gas . This 52 * *** bB Called the trium P of gaVtronomy . _^ _thS « t ° _^ J \ _--By official returns'it appears and \ w ,, ga ,,, S of Ireland cost £ 126 , 630 last year , _TncS " _^ average number of prisoners was 12 , 041 . Maxim „?„ _w- , ! . _- ~ Theson "f _Qu " ltil _* s F ab '" _2-f * n _$ father t 0 sei ' ze on a certain post , _SlLiJ M , . ? £ _lyoMt _" B few men" Kabi " ifi i _"' ' WjJt thou bec oneof thefew ?" Mr * W _> ° _»» WB _.-UMa that nice yotu _* man , if ™ Tnr ? " _, _' . B Vfcry fond of _Msaing . " " Mind your » M _» I Wi ? ' _?' told you such nonsense ?" _ivia , _i had it from . his own lio . ? . "

      n-LtKm- <* old Ph > 'osol > aer observes , that the £ ! 3 « rS ? , dls ' fire ! the _P- _'oof of woman , gold ; tho P k t ? t mn woman . ' _ishnrJ » i Wok * _w .-If the earth , says the Span-• ill ink S' l t f paPer < the trees a" Pens , the sea i , ffint , l ; _^ ? . a 11 wrlters < tl ) ey - _™ _* * " _«» t _J « woman ! n the ba ( l ' _Wdioes . ora _wiofced » ' _£ il . ° BSB , _""I ,: is Ben Johnson who says , . tin _Vi earn no art truly but _t 1 ) al ; of horsemanfc . Li i rea ? on is - the brave beast Wno flatterer ; A XT r tile ° rin 0 S aS S 00 n aS Ws _gVOOm , " A _r-iEw Invention . —A gentleman in Taunton has consvructed an umbrella , the main feature of which is , that it can be carried iri the pocket with ease . He intends _sending it fe ihe Great Exhibition . Pretty Good . —A French lady having described something a _sunerbe . _maeniBoue . and sa on .

      ornceeded to explain in English , " Such as you call in _jsmshsh , pret-tygood . " _UsuFui .. —A clasp to fasten the bedclothes to the bedstead , and keep restless husbands from " kicking the kiver off " their spouses , & o ., has been invented in New York . —Jonathan . What is a Oquette ? —A young lady of more beauty than sense , more accomplishments than learning , more charm of person than grace , of mind , more admirers than friends , more fools than wise men for attendants . —Longfellow . The Rev . Dr . _Scoresby , in a papeFread before the British Association , stated that the highest crest of a wave above the trough of the sea , in a series of Atlantic observations , was found to be forty-five feet . - ¦

      Awkward Coincidekce . —In a Tyneside village church , the curate on Trinity Sunday preached a sermon which was recognised as Ti _lotson „ In the afternoon ihe incumbent , who had been absent , returned and preached the very same sermon . . A . Black ; Story . —A shower of black rain fell recently in Northamptonshire , which on the authority ofa clergyman who relates the fact , rendered two boys who were blading his waggons , " as black as chimney sweepers . " Capt . Stanford ., who , at some personal risk , and

      with singular disinterestedness , supplied thecommis sariat of the . Cape of Good Hope with provisions when their supplies were , during the late disturbances cut off from every other source , has received the honour of Knighthood . Potkrty has in large cities . very different appearances . It is often concealed iu splendour , and often in extravagance . It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest . They support themselves by _temporary expedients , and that every day is lost in contriving for

      tomorrow . Viiitpe of Strawberries . —The act of eating strawberries , says an eminent medical writer , cleanses the teeth and gums , and purities the breath . It assists digestion and fortifies the stomach , and being-of itself entirely soluble , never turiiS sour Or undergoes fermentation . In many cases it is positively medical , removing rheumatic affections and other diseases arising from obstructions of the system . A Boll . —A certain Irish attorney threatened to prosecute a Dublin printer for inserting the death of a living person . The menacer concluded with the remark "That no printer should publish a death , unless informed of the fact by the party deceased . "

      True _ChauixY . —If we give only to receive , we lose the fairest objects of our charity—the absent , the sick , the captive , and the needy . When we oblige those that can never pay us again in kind , as a stranger upon his last farewell , - or a , necessitous person upon his deathbed , we make Providence our debtor , and rejoice in the consciousness even ofa fruitless benefit . * ¦ ¦ * * He tbat gives nothing but in hope of receiving , must die intestate . — Seneca . Human Natum * . — Elliott , the Corn-Law Rhymer , said , if you wish to know what human nature is , you should solicit subscriptions for a

      poem . He had done so : and one man said , " D—n you ! why don't you write something a gentleman can read ? " Another , "Well , . I suppose I must patronise your vanity , or what you please to call it > . " Pride Humbled . —Leigh Hunt ' s father was a stalwart clergyman , who knew not what it w s to truckle . One day , _beini ! in company with a certain _fatauti purse-proud bishop , they fell into a discussion , in which the pompous prekvical bigot deemed his dignity would go for half the argument . Finding that Mr . Hunt had the best of , it , he turned fiercely on him , saying , "Sir do you know what I am ?" " Dust and ashes , my lord , " replied the clergyman .

      '' I am an old fellow , ? ays Cowper _, in one of his letters to Hurd , " But I had once , my dancing days , as you have now ; yet 1 could never find that I could learn half so much of a woman ' s character by d » ne iag with her , as by conversing with her at home _, where I could observe her behavi _* -mv unobserved , at the table , at the fireside , and in all the trying circumstances of life . We are all good when we are pleased ; but she is a good woman who wants no fiddle to sweeten her . " A Hint to Newspaper _Proprietors and GornEsroN » EiNTs . —By a recent order issued by the _Postmaster-G' _-neral of Ibe United St ; ites , all correspondence for editors and publishers of newspapers printed in the States of tho Union , is permitted to pass postage free through the territory of the United States , provided such correspondence _relat * s exclusively to matters connected with their respective newspapers .

      Song . —Oh , man y the man you lave , girls , if you can set him at all ; il'hoisasrich as Croesus or . as poor as Job in his fall . Pray , do not marry for pelf , cirls , ' twill bring youv soul into thrall ; but marry the man you love , girls , if his purse he ever so small . Oh , never marry a fop , girls , whelher he ' s little or tall ; he'll make a fool of himself and youhe knows nothing well but to brawl . But marry a sober man , girls ( there are few left on this ball ) , and you never will rue the day , girls , that you over married a' all .

      A Precious " Fix . " —Papers having been lodged to file an injunction to prevent the Dover Company from opening the _Asliford and Hastings Line , on the ground that the line , as constructed , does not agree withthe parliamentary section . The other day an injunction <»* decision was obtained , prohibiting the company from paying any more dividend until the said line shall have been opened . Therefore , an injunction being obtained to prevent the opening , and another to . stop ' uture dividends until tlie opening , the company are in a true American " fix . " Was ever Woman in such Humour Wooed ? - The following is said to be the manner a Sandwich Islander proposes marriage , when he falls a victimt lo the tender passion : —The chief told her that if she

      wou ' . d become Uis wife Ue would send one hundred sea orters to her friends , that he would never ask her to arrcy wood , draw water , dig for roots , or hunt for privisions ; that be would make her mistress over his other wives , and permit her to sit at her ease from morning till night , and wear her o _* _vn clothes , * that she would always , . have ' abundance of fat salmon , anchovies nnd elk , and be allowed to smoke ss many pipes of tobacco a ? she thought proper , together with many other flattering inducements . The _MixtD Arrows . —Cnpid , ono sultry summer ' s noon , tired with play and faint with heat , went into a cool grotto to repose himself , which happened to be the cave of Death . Be threw himself carelessly down on the floor , and his quirer turning

      topsy-turvy , all the arrows fell out , and mingled with those of Death , which lay _scattered up and down the place . When lie awoko he gathered them up as well as he conld * , but they were so intermingled that , though he knew the exact number , ho could not rightly distinguish them , from which it happened that he took op sonic of the arrows which belonged to Death , and left several of his own in the room of them . This is tho cause why we now and then see the hearts of the old and decrepid transfixed with the bolts of Lnve ; and , with equal grief and surpr ise , behold the youthful , blcooming part of our _•• peeie 8 _smi'tcn with the darts of Death . _Illustrations of American "Freedom . "—A gentleman lately from Mis-ouri relates to us the following incident s— A slave-holder in the southern _oartuf Missouri started for California , taking with bim a slave whom he bad promised should _accomnanvhim to the mines , and then bave an opportunity

      of earning enough to purchase his liherty and that of his wife and children . The master proceeded as far ias St Louis , and there placed him in a slave-pen and sold him for 750 dollars . The agreement between the master and the slave was , aa the latter related to our informant that he should accompany him to the mines and work for him eight hours every day , and have the remainder of his time to dig on " his own hook . " He was to pay his master 800 dollars for his liberty , COO for his wife ' s , and 400 each for his children . " My heart was high , " said the negro , as he related his story , " as I thought of Ihe prospect of _becoming free and having my wife and children ; but think how I felt , " and the tears rolled down his cheeks , when " massa sell me to get money to csrry him to the gold mines . Oh I dare ' er no God for my _tuassa ; he no go to hebbeu when he die . The Btory was heartrending , " says our friend : but he adds *« i < is a scene of every day life among slave ' traders , "—Daily Wisconsin .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 31, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31081850/page/3/